We have users who want to make sub-folders of mapped drives available offline. If they make their U:\ offline they can see the U:\ drive in the network location as a drive. However if they may a sub-folder of a mapped drive offline it doesn't appear. If they manual map a drive letter to this folder it appears and if they go to the FQN of the folder it can also be seen (\\XXXX.co.uk\dfs\foldername\)

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If you set a sub-directory of a network drive to be available offline then when the machine is not connected to the network/network drive the mapping should still be listed. This mapped drive should be identical to the "connected" mapping but when accessing it should only contain the files/folders marked as offline. Only those files/folders should be accessible.

I would try seeing if the offline items can be accessed by the following process:

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1. Go to START, type "Offline"
2. Click "Manage Offline Files"
3. Under the "General" tab, Select "View your offline files"
4. In the explorer window select "Mapped Network Drives"
You should see the drive you have offline files under and clicking into the drive and folders that were marked as offline should display the files.

If this works you could create a shortcut for your user by following these instructions.

Whoa, first, making ANY shared folders offline is one quick way to create a big mess of your files. The only folders people should maybe synch is their own private shared folder if they have it.

Once they start messing with shared folder,specifically the ones accessed by many, they'll start getting prompts that the same files has two different modify dates and they'll probably will not know what that is, they'll will be changing already modified files by other users and people will start to call for you to get backups.

I'm guessing these people use laptops? If so, best way is a VPN from that laptop so they can access their files Live.

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